Re: Web service receiving any complex type

[email protected] wrote:

>I need to create a web service 
>
currently WSIF is only client side API - you can not create service with 
WSIF but you can access them using WSDL for it and WSIF API

>that could receive any complex type. And, in axis
>users list I was informed that WSIF could solve my problem. For instance, my web
>service proposal could receive a complex type for a person (Name, age, ...) for
>an address (Street, state, country,...) is it... I mustn't have a predefined
>complex type to be received.
>  
>
you should use DOM Element in AXIS1 to process XML directly and avoid 
databinding.

also as you deal with XML directly you can be just fine to deal with XML 
directly in servlet - i am not sure if you really needed AXIS unless you 
need handlers and the SOAP Envelope processing you need you can manually 
extract using DOM.

>Does any one have any idea about how WSIF could solve my problem? Any examples?
>  
>
Unfortunaltely I do not have any examples for AXIS.

We wrote some time ago generic client (browser) - server (tomcat) that 
could create HTML UI to represent typical messages with complex types as 
HTML forms and send them - see Xydra.

I have also a simple (and *completely* unofficial!!!!!)  prototype of 
server-side APIs for WSIF implemented in XSUL2 - but that requires 
comping WSDL into databinding classes (using XmlBeans)

http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/xsul/guide/index.html#impl

and there is a lower level XML processing layer in XSUL2 availabel - get 
SOAP message and do whatever you like with it - to use it you would need 
to knwo a bnit about XPP3 Infoset processing (simple) - for example take 
those two classes and rewrite them to get XML message inside SOAP 
(processXml/processMessage) and do whatever you like with it:

http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/viewcvs/~checkout~/xsul/java/samples/xsul_sample_hello/EchoServer.java
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/viewcvs/~checkout~/xsul/java/samples/xsul_sample_hello/EchoServlet.java

HTH,

alek

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